Accession number
PML 88954
Published
London : The Religious Tract Society : Depositories, 56, Paternoster Row ; 65, St. Paul's Churchyard ; and 164, Piccadilly : and sold by the booksellers, [186?]
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
"Reed & Pardon, Printers, Paternoster-row"--colophon.
Six plates of chromolithographs, including frontispiece, all signed J.M. Kronheim & Co., London, and four engraved vignettes, including title vignette, all unsigned.
T.p. and text printed within a single line border.
Laid in: three leaves from "The child's companion, and juvenile instructor, 1863", including title page, frontispiece, and list of contents, signed in front in black ink: "Clara L. Sharpe from [illegible] King"
"Clara Louisa Sharpe from the Revd. G. M. Langmead, Royal Military Asylum Chelsea, February 7th 1862"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
Six plates of chromolithographs, including frontispiece, all signed J.M. Kronheim & Co., London, and four engraved vignettes, including title vignette, all unsigned.
T.p. and text printed within a single line border.
Laid in: three leaves from "The child's companion, and juvenile instructor, 1863", including title page, frontispiece, and list of contents, signed in front in black ink: "Clara L. Sharpe from [illegible] King"
"Clara Louisa Sharpe from the Revd. G. M. Langmead, Royal Military Asylum Chelsea, February 7th 1862"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
Description
[2], iv, 68 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. chiefly col. (chromolithographs, engravings) ; 18.5 x 14 cm
Provenance
Clara Louisa Sharpe, inscription ; from the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's tan pictorial ripple-grain cloth, blocked in lavender, blue, and gold, with yellow endpapers.
Classification
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